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Schulz-Dornburg, Ursula:

Ansichten von Pagan, Burma ("Views of Pagan, Burma" (Bagan, Myanmar).

Kirkegaards Antikvariat
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Cologne: Studio DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. Large squarish 4to hardcover with dustjacket. Unpaginated with app. 80 photographs and an introductory text by Rudolf Knubel in German. Excellent fine attractive copy.

First edition. Beautiful photobook in great graphic design by Tünn Konnerding. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is exploring with camera and though her book publications the complex bonds between landscape and human civilization, exploring the construction of power though the built environment and its inevitable impermanence. By looking back at areas of past historical or political importance her images highlight how conflict, destruction, time and decay transforms the landscape. Many of Schulz-Dornburg’s projects derive from a relatively confined geographic location, encompassing ancient civilizations alongside areas of modern strategic importance. Historically referred to as both a gateway and a cross roads, or the ‘land in-between’, the area was often defined not by its content but by what lies on either side, between Europe and Asia, east and west, old and new. Over a thirty-year period, Schulz-Dornburg travelled to this region, visiting Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Documenting ruins of the now abandoned Ottoman railway project in Saudi Arabia, decaying Soviet era bus stops in Armenia, and temporary marsh dwellings in Mesopotamia. Most recently, in 2010, she travelled to Syria to photograph the ancient city of Palmyra. Her images now form some of the last visual documentation of the area prior to its recent destruction. For this present book Ursula Schulz-Dornburg was visiting Pagan city in Burma 1976 - now Bagan, Myanmar - , where she was photographing the holy temples, both in their landscape form and inside. Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2,200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day. - A very tentative, beautiful book.
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